Apparel-corset.



PATENTED AUG. 2, 1904.

D. KOPS.

APPAREL CORSET.

APPLIOATION FILED MAR. 16, 1904.

N0 MODEL.

UNITED STATES Patented August 2, 1904.

DANIEL KOPS, OF NEIV YORK, N. Y.

APPAREL-CORSET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent NO- 766,706, dated August 2, 1904.

Application filed March l5, 1904.. Serial No. 198,265. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, DANIEL Kors, a citizen of the United States, residing in the borough of Manhattan, city, county, andState of New York, have invented an Improvement in Apparel-Corsets,of which the following is a specific-ation.

My invention relates to apparel-corsets, and has for its object providing the corset with one or more gore structures adapted to be extended or contracted or renewed to accommodate the size or changed proportions of the figure of the wearer, that the corset may fit snugly and perfectly in all particulars.

In carrying out my invention I provide a gore within a gore, the first gore portion being in the form of a. V-shaped strip as a permanent part of the corset-body and the inner gore of V form wholly or partially sever-able from the V strip-gore, so as to extend or contract the area of the gore piece of fabric of V form to alter the outline of the gore and provide one in which the acute angle is less or greater and the modification of which in the corset will either amplify or contract the measurement thereof.

I prefer to employ a piece of fabric of V form the edges of which at its maximum dimensions are secured to the edges of the V- shaped strip-gore by lines of sewing not intended to be severed, and which gore is folded against the inner surface of the corset-body to produce the desired minimum dimensions in the manufactured corset and is sewed to place by outside lines of stitches. These latter stitches are to be severed in order to refold the inner g'ore-strip at its acute-angle edges to lessen or increase the area thereof, after which it is again sewed to the V-shaped strip. The former lines of sewing may be severed as well as the latter lines if the wearer desired to entirely remove the gore-strip and substitute therefor another believed to be more correct or acceptable. This double-gore construction is especially advantageous at the breast and hip portions of the corset and is a desirable improvement upon the corset structure shown and described in reissue Letters Patent, dated June 16, 1903, No. 12,120.

In the drawings, Figure l is an elevation at the upper front portion of the corset, and Fig. 2 is an elevation at the back portion of the corset. Fig. 3 is a section at .fr .fr of Fig. l. Fig. I is a plan view at the upper edge of Fig'. 1. Fig. is a section at `1/ 1/ of Fig. Q. Fig. 6 is an inverted plan of the lower edge of Fig. 2. Fig'. 7 is a section with the inner gore portion extended in relation to the gore-strip, and Fig. 8 is an edge View at the union line of such extension. Figs. 4 to 8, inclusive, are of exaggerated size.

L represents the fabric body above the waist-line, and a.' the fabric body below the waist-line.

71 7) represent series of oppositely-placed diverging and outwardly-tapering fingers, such as shown and described in my aforesaid reissue Letters Patent.

c c represent the series of V-shaped gore portions coming between the series of oppositely-placed fingers Z; Il.

CZ Z/ represent the V-shaped strip-gores that are inserted, especially, in the upper breast portion of the corset and lower hip portion, and e e represent the fabric g'ores of the form or outline adapted to be connected to the V- shaped stripgores .Z al. These V-shaped stripgores Z d are permanent parts of a corset, while the gores e a' are adapted to be removed and replaced with larger or smaller V fabric forms of gores or to be partially unsewed and extended or contracted and then resewed, as I do not limit my invention to the employment of the V-portion forms of g'ores that can be extended or contracted. The V-shaped strip-gores l d are secured to the fabric body of the corset by lines of sewing' 2 2 along the opposite acute-angle edges.

Referring' particularly to Figs. 3, et, 5, and 6, the V gore-forms e e are secured to the V- shaped strip-gores d rl by lines of sewing 3 3 3 and 4 along their opposite or acute-angle edges, and ff' are the edge-binding' strips coming at the upper and lower edges of the corset. The forms of gore e e', as shown in these ligures, are connected to the V-shaped strip-gores at about their minimum dimensions-that is to say, the distance across the top of the V is about a minimum distance, because the edges of the V-form gores e a are IOO folded over wide. The line of sewing 4 is the non-severable line of sewing of the folded edges of the V-shaped strip-gore and the edge of the V-forin gore, and the lines of sewing 3 3 3 are two lines of sewing through the fold of the strip-gore and one at the folded edge V of the V-form gore. The line of sewing 4 is intended to remain, except in cases where the V-shaped strip-gore is to be removed and replaced by another.

As shown in Figs. 3 and 5, if now it is desired to make the V-form gore e or e' largerin other words, of greater spread-the three lines of sewing 3 3 3 are cut in order to free the otherwise connected parts of the fabric and the V-form gore is then moreor less refolded, as shown in Fig. 7, to bring the same into its maximum dimensions or an intermediate position and the parts are then connected `by two new lines of sewing 3 3 without disturbing the lines of sewing 4. The edge binding -extends along the top or bottom of the corset,

' as shown in Figs. 4, 6, and 8, and the folded portion of the V form of fabric gore c or e is made with a complete binding-strip f2 or f3, which is folded over with and conformably to the fold of the fabric, and this fold of the edge binding is sewed down to the V-shaped stripgore as well as the fabric parts, and when the separation at the lines of sewing 3 3 3 takes place the edge binding draws out the same as the fabric to be more or less refolded and reconnected by the lines of sewing 3 3. (Shown in Figs. 7 and 8.) It will thus be apparent that this form of corset as made with the V- shaped strip-gores CZ d' and the V form of gores e e is adapted for adjustment according to the different proportions of the different purchasers, as it is a very simple and easy matter for the purchaser, if there is any lack of fullness in the corset, to sever the lines 3 3 3 of sewing and to let out the inner gore and resew the same as may be required, or vice versa.

I claim as my inventionl. In an apparel-corset, the combination with the fabric body of a V strip-gore connected to form a permanent 'part of the corset, and a second or inner gore of V form secured to the strip-gore by lines of sewing to be severed if desired.

2. In an apparel-corset, the combination with the fabric body, of a V strip-gore connected to form a permanent part of the corset-body along its greater or obtuse angle edges, and a second or inner and detachable gore of V form removably secured to the V strip-gore along its greater or obtuse angle edges.

3. In an apparel-corset, the combination with the fabric body, of a V strip-gore connected to form a permanent part 0f the corset-body by lines of sewing 2, 2 along its greater or obtuse angle edges, and a second or inner and detachable gore of V form secured to the edges of the V strip-gore by the lines of sewing 3, 3. 3 and 4.

4. In an apparel-corset,the combination with the fabric body having a series of upwardly and downwardly extending diverging fingers between which are V-shaped incisions, of a V strip-gore connected to form a permanent part of the corset-body by lines of sewing 2, 2 along its greater or obtuse edges, and a second or inner gore of V form secured to the edges of the V strip-gore by severable lines of sewing 3, 3, 3 and lines of sewing 4 intended to remain.

5. In an apparel-corset, the combination with the fabric body, of a V strip-gore connected to form a permanent part of the corset-body along its greater or obtuse angle edges, and a second or inner gore of V form attached to the gore-strip by a line of sewing 4 intended to remain, and secured thereto by lines of sewing 3, 3, 3intended to be severed if desired, to facilitate refolding and thereafter reconnecting the folded edges by the other lines of sewing" 3, 3.

6. In an apparel-corset,the combination with the fabric body having a series of upwardly and downwardly extending diverging fingers between which are V-shaped incisions, of a V strip-gore connected to form a permanent part of the corset-body along its greater or obtuse angle edges, and a second or inner gore of V form attached to the gore-strip by a line of sewing 4 intended to remain and secured thereto by lines of sewing 3, 3, 3 intended to be severed if desired to facilitate refolding and thereafter reconnecting the folded edges by the other lines of sewing 3, 3.

Signed by me this 26th day of February,

Witnesses:

ERNST Nnwivmnii,- Gao. T. PINGKNEY.

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